Pakistan’s Cities Are Running Out of Water—and the Fix May Lie Underground
A sweeping new review finds Pakistan's cities face intertwined crises of groundwater depletion, contamination, flooding, and fragmented governance, but points ...
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Riverside Indonesian City Faces Flood Governance Gaps as New Capital Rises Nearby
A new policy analysis of 314 flood-related strategies in Samarinda reveals that the Indonesian city's flood governance is strong on ...
Green Roofs and Gardens Could Halve Flooding at a Drowning Ecuadorian School
A study in Durán, Ecuador, combined community workshops with SWMM modeling to show that a combined green roof and bioretention ...
How the Choice of Rainfall Interpolation Method Can Shift Urban Flood Predictions by More Than 10 Percent
A new study finds that the choice of rainfall spatial interpolation method can alter simulated urban flood depths by more ...
AI Learns the Shape of a City’s Drains to Outsmart Extreme Floods
A topology-aware deep reinforcement learning framework that encodes drainage networks as graphs cut simulated flood overflow by over 31 percent ...
Kolkata’s Unprecedented Night of Rain: Scientists Identify Warning Signs of Extreme Short-Deluge Events
A new case study shows that thermodynamic precursors from soundings, reanalysis and radar data can flag extreme short-duration rainfall events ...
Satellite Flood Mapping Gets Smarter: New Index Slashes False Alarms in Cities
A new Enhanced NDWI combined with a hybrid fusion technique reduces false alarms in satellite-based urban flood detection from 38 ...
Flood Models Understate Ambulance Delays in Poor Neighborhoods
A study of the 2016 Hurricane Matthew flood in Virginia Beach reveals that standard models underestimated ambulance delays in low-income ...
Satellite Maps Reveal Nearly Half of Nigerian City Faces High Flood Risk
A GIS and analytical hierarchy process study of Ilorin, Nigeria, has mapped flood susceptibility across the entire metropolis and found ...
Mapping Flood Danger: Simple GIS Model Predicts Where Nigerian City Will Drown
Researchers in Nigeria combined satellite data with a structured expert-weighting method to map flood susceptibility across Makurdi, finding that over ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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